Dr.VAISHALI VIROCHAN NAIK
DOB: 2ND APRIL, 1969
FORMER ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
VICE-PRINCIPAL & HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,
BABURAOJI GHOLAP COLLEGE , PUNE.
MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED
ADDRESS: 4. VARSHA VASANT APTS. 71, LANE2, ANAND PARK. AUNDH, PUNE -411007
EMAIL: [email protected]
EDUCATION
ENGLISH
PHD (ENGLISH LITERATURE) FROM PUNE UNIVERSITY IN OCTOBER 2013. TOPIC OF RESEARCH: ‘A STUDY OF THE INDIAN PARTITION AS SEEN THROUGH SELECTED TEXTS OF HISTORY AND PARTITION.’
MPHIL (ENGLISHLITERATURE) FROM PUNE UNIVERSITY IN 1995. TOPIC OF RESEARCH: ‘FREUD, JUNG AND BEYOND: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE FREUDIAN AND JUNGIAN INTERPRETATIVE MODELS OF ALICE TALES, AND SUGESSTION OF A THIRD MODEL BASED ON LACAN.’
NET ( ENGLISH) IN 1995. MA – ENGLISH FROM NAGPUR UNIVERSITY IN 1991 -60% ( Silver Medalist) BA- ENGLISH FROM NAGPUR UNIVESITY IN 1989- 62%. SUBJECTS OFFERED- ENGLISH
LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY.
PSYCHOLOGY PGDCP( POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY) FROM
IPMS (INDIAN PSYCHOMANAGEMENT STUDIES) AFFILIATED TO UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINA ALTERNATIVA ( SRILANKA)
MS IN COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FROM IPMS (INDIAN PSYCHOMANAGEMENT STUDIES) AFFILIATED TO UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINA ALTERNATIVA ( SRILANKA)
REBT (RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY) COURSE FROM DEPT. OF PSYCHOLOGY, JNANAPRABODHINI, PUNE.
CBT (COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY) LEVEL I FROM EMOTICONS PSYCHOLOGY INSTITUTE, PUNE
REBT (RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY) LEVEL- I FROM EMOTICONS PSYCHOLOGY INSTITUTE PUNE
RESEARCH PROJECT ON ‘ACCULTURATION STRESS IN NEO-URBAN COLLEGE GOING POPULATION IN PUNE.’
WAS INVOLVED IN MANAGING THE COLLEGE COUNSELLING CELL. INVOLVED IN RESEARCH CARRIED OUT BY PSYCHIATRY UNIT, KEM HOSPITAL ON –
I) DASS( DEPRESSION, ANXIETYSTRESS SCALE) II) CFI ( CULTURALFORMULATION INTERVIEW)
OTHER EDUCATION:
MA – PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF PUNE ( First class with Distinction) ONE YEAR CERTIFICATE COURSE IN WOMEN STUDIES FROM WOMEN STUDIES CENTRE,
UNIVERSITY OF PUNE. (Rank holder, Distinction) ONE YEAR POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN WOMEN STUDIES FROM WOMEN STUDIES
CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF PUNE. MA –HISTORY from SPPU, Pune Intensive Certificate Course in Spanish from SPPU, Pune
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
TEACHING GIFTED SCHOOL CHILDREN. 1993-1996. UNDERGRADUATE COURSES 1996-2017 POST GRADUATE COURSES 2001-2017 VISITING FACULTY/ RESOURCE PERSON FOR WOMEN STUDIES CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF
PUNE. VISITING FACULTY FOR MPSC AND UPSC ASPIRANTS
WORKSHOPS ON – STUDY SKILLS, COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS, PRESENTATION SKILLS, GROUP DISCUSSION, LITERATURE RELATED TOPICS, COUNSELLING ETC.
WAS RUNNING COLLEGE COUNSELLING CELL
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Apart from Ph D And M Phil- Was Awarded TRG (Teacher Research Grant) by American Studies Research Centre,
Hyderabad for 3 Weeks in 1993.Field of Study: A Psychoanalytical Study of Dream and Fantasy in Children Fantasy Literature
Completed Minor Research Project funded by U.G. C.
Topic – A Comparative Study of the Indian Partition as seen through History and as seen through Literature.
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT:
1. ‘Hindu Marriage Ritual: A Feminist Critique’ – as a part of Certificate Course in Women Studies (CWS). Women Studies Centre, University of Pune
2. ‘Teaching Poetry from a Feminist Perspective’ – as a part of Diploma in Women Studies (DWS). Women Studies Centre, University of Pune.
3. MS Project on Acculturation Stress ( mentioned earlier) Seminars, Conferences, Symposia, Workshops Attended:
Sr.No. Theme S/C/W/S College Date Level 1. Romanticism
Reconsidered Seminar WadiaCollege ,Pune 14/03/1998 University
Level 2. FYBA- New
Syllabus Workshop AmbedkarCollege, Pune 26/03/1998 University
Level 3. The Theatre of the
Absurd Seminar WadiaCollege, Pune, 25/03/2000 University
Level 4. Contemporary
Criticism Seminar L.A.D.College,Nagpur* 08/03/2001 State Level
5. Annual Conference- NagpurUniversity Teachers Organisation
Conference- NabiraCollege, Katol 16/3/2001- 17/3/2001
State Level
6. Restructuring of English Syllabus at Undergraduate Level
Workshop Arts And CommerceCollege,Lonavala
3/3/2002 University Level
7. FY BComSyllabus Workshop M.U.College, Pimpri March02, UnivLevel 8. Understanding
Poetry Seminar Arts And CommerceCollege,
Chakan 10/01/2003 University
Level 9. The Process of
Assessment and accreditation of Colleges by NAAC
Workshop AnnashebMagar College, Hadapsar, Pune
05/05/2002 University Level
10 Seminar on Drama Seminar Department of English, University of Pune
05/03/2003 University Level
11. International Seminar on Shakespeare
Seminar Jointly organized by Department of English, Univ.of Pune and Shakespeare Society of India, British Council Division
12th-14th August, 2004
International
12. Narrative Theory Seminar English Teachers’ Association in collaboration with AbasahebGarware College, Pune.
21/10/2005 Local
13. The Henrik Ibsen Festival
Conference Jointly organised by Symbiosis College and Royal Norwegian Embassay, New Delhi
Jan. 2006 International
14. Indian Writing in English
Seminar AbedaInamdar College, Pune 10/2/2007 State Level
15. Addressing Gender in research: Debates and challenges
Workshop KrantijyotiSavitribaiPhule Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune
28th Feb and 1stMarch, 2011
National Level
*COHSSIP SEMINAR Papers Presented in Seminars/Workshops/ Conferences:
S.No. Theme Paper title S/C/W/
S College Date Level
1.* Images of Women: Ancient to Present
Images of Women in English Literature
seminar Indira Gandhi College, Nanded
07/01/2006 State**
2. Women in contemporary India: An interdisciplinary approach
Gendered Images in Writing- from past to present
seminar AbasahebGarware College, Pune
16th-18th Jan,2008
National
3 Developing Soft Skills through literature
A case study of ‘Lord of the Flies’
seminar H.V. Desai college, Pune
09/02/2010 State
4. Theory at Work: Text, Text and history in seminar Banaras 9th -11th Internation
History and culture. context of the Indian partition; A Study
Hindu University,Varanasi
Nov. 2010 al
5. Understanding Drama A feminist reading Of ‘A Doll’s House’
seminar H.V.Desai College, Pune
13th-14th Jan,2011
State
6.* Drama in the Classroom: Pedagogical Possibilities
“A Doll’s house: beyond the Feminist Perspective.”
seminar Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar.
19th -20th Jan,2011
State
7 New echo of old voice: Ecofeminism.
Conference
NWS University,Sydney
Oct. 2011 International
8 Interdisciplinary Net Rereading Poetry from a third world perspective.
Conference
Ryerson University, Toronto
May 2012 International
9 Ethics in Everyday Living Ethics of Ecotourism with reference to Romantic Poetry.
Conference
Praha University, Prague
May 2013 International
10 Recent Trends and Changes in
Indian English Literature
Saadat Hasan Manto: Revisiting the Trauma
Seminar Jedhe Arts, Commerce and Science, Pune
2015 State
11 English Literature in Context
Text and History in Context of the Indian Partition
Conference
AbedaInamdarSr College of Arts, Science and Commerce
Feb 2015 National
12 New Trends in Humanities, Gender and Cultural Studies.
Text and History in Context of the Indian Partition: A Study
Conference
NG Acharya and DK Marathe College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mumbai
Oct 2014 International
13* Partition Literature The Lost Homeland Motif in Partition Fiction
Conference
EVS Periyar College, Trichy
March 2016
National
*Keynote Address ** Interdisciplinary and Multilanguage Seminar Other PAPERS PRESENTED : 1. A Psychoanalytical Reading of Fairy Tale Literature at ASRC, Hyderabad , 1992.
2. Imaginary Homeland Motif in the fiction of Salman Rushdie at Department of English,
University of Pune, 1992.
3. Expatriate Fiction : Sujata Bhatt’s ‘ Brunizem ‘ at Department of English, University of
Pune,1992.
4. ‘Harold Bloom and the Anxiety of the Past’ at Department of English, University of Pune, 1992.
5. ‘Rereading of Lacan’ at Department of English, University of Pune.,1992.
6. A Literary Analysis of Advertisements with special reference to Feminism,
Psychoanalysis, Semiotics and Deconstruction.
7. ‘A Feminist Perspective on SunitiNamjoshi’s Conversations of A Cow’, Dept. of English , 1992
8. ‘Close Reading’COHSSIPSeminar, L.A.D.College, Nagpur,8/3/2001
9. ‘Partition Literature’, Women Studies Centre, University of Pune, 2002.
10. ‘A Critique of RomilaThapar’s reading of ‘Shakuntala’’ WomenStudiesCenter, University of Pune, 2003
11.‘Empowerment and Hindu Marriage Ritual- A Feminist Critique’, Arts, Science and CommerceCollege, Akurdi, 27/ 02/ 200
PUBLICATIONS:
-‘A critique of Inside the Haveli within the frame of Feminism, Culture and Marginal.’ , An Anthology of Women Writers.
‘ Partitions: Relooking at History from the Present Location.’ Volume 1 No. 4. Jan-Dec. 2014, ISSN 2231- 0592- Cenacle
Paper Presentation- at UGC sponsored National Seminar on “Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Teaching in Social Sciences.” Organized jointly by Interdisciplinary School (Humanities and Social Sciences), SavitribaiPhule Pune University and St. Mira’s College. Paper presented on “Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Studies and Literature: A Case Study.” Paper published.
Resource Person at National Seminar on ‘Urban Inequalities in India: Contradictions of Urbanization in Contemporary Indian Society’ at MaharshiKarveStreeShikshanSamstha’s Shree Siddhivinayak Arts and Commerce MahilaMahavidyalaya, Pune. 19th- 20th Dec, 2014. Paper published.
‘Changing Times; changing Relationships.’ Dew Drops, A journal of creative writing. ‘ Breathless in Bombay; A Journey Accomplished.’ Parsee Voices in Fiction.( An
Anthology)
OTHER DETAILS:
Guest lecture on “Relooking at Partition through Fiction” at Arts Forum, Garware College on 4th September, 2014.
Paper Setting at MA ( English) at SavitribaiPhule Pune University. External referee for PHD thesis for 5 candidates from RastrasantTukdojiMaharaj University,
Nagpur and Bharatidasan University, Tiruchilapalli. Resource Person-The Forum For Creative Writers in English, IV National Meet at Nagpur. 14th
March, 2015. Keynote Speaker at National Conference, EVS Periyar College, Tiruchilapalli. Attended National Level Workshop on ‘Bilingual Teaching in the Digital Age.’ Organized by KSP
Women’s Studies Centre, Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE), TISS(Tata Institute of Social Sciences) on 22nd and 23rd January, 2015.
Worked as translator in a research project (DASS Cultural Formulation Interview Research) of Psychiatry Unit, KEM Hospital, of Psychological Testing.
Assisted in a Psychiatry paper writing published in Cultural Psychiatry of India. Presentation skills in Soft skills workshop, BaburaojiGholap College. Lectures in NSS Camps.
Other activities:
Participated in radio talks. (AIR, Pune) Associated with teaching of English to UPSC and MPSC aspirants at JnanaPrabodhini . Guest lectures at Youth wing, ( RYLA) ROTARY. Consultancy in Web Portal Content Development. Completed courses in Creative Writing, Photography.
Hobbies:Teaching, Counseling, Learning, Travelling, Music, Writing, Reading, photography, Compering.
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